s eye in the middle of its head. But
an eye three feet across!

"A Cyclops!" Robin screamed again.

A moment later the creature stooped and with a scooping motion of its
great right hand picked up the two tiny creatures on the forest floor
beneath it. Then it ran, uprooting oak-sized saplings, back toward the
rocky hillside where it dwelled, after the Cyclopes of old on which
Robin and Charlie had naively patterned it, in a cave overlooking the
sea.

* * * * *

"Where, man? Where?" Captain Purcell demanded.

"I don't know," Charlie said. "I really don't think she would. You see,
she always threatened she'd go there if we ever had a fight, but she was
usually half-joking. She knows it's dangerous--"

"But where? Don't you know a drowning man has to grasp at straws?
Haven't I gotten it across to you--the whole galaxy may be in danger!"

Charlie sighed. "I don't understand much of your galaxy. Robin knows the
encyclopedia--she would understand. And I--I only want to know Robin is
safe." He took a deep breath and said: "She always threatened to go to
the Land of the Cyclopes."

"Then take us there at once," Captain Purcell said....

* * * * *

If he shouted and cried now, he would go insane. He knew that. He tried
to hold his fear in check. He was being swung pendulum-like in an
enormous hand as the one-eyed giant loped along. Robin shared the
clenched-fist prison with him. Her hair streamed in the wind as the huge
arm swung the huge hand in time with the giant's enormous strides.

"Does it eat people?" he managed to ask Robin. He had to shout because
the wind created by the creature's movement was considerable. The ground
spun giddily far, far below them, whirling patches of green, of yellow,
of brown.

"We made them to eat people. Like in the book. We were just children.
It seemed--it seemed so thrilling."

The Cyclops loped along, uprooting saplings. After a while it began to
climb a rocky slope and from the heights Glaudot could see the shores of
an unknown sea. Then the Cyclops reached a cave entrance and rolled
aside a huge boulder and took his prisoners within.

Glaudot heard the bleating of sheep.

* * * * *

"Why, it's a fortune in jewels!" Captain Purcell exclaimed. They had
found the glade in the forest, where Robin had created a king's ransom
for Glaudot. The men gathered around, many of them struck d